Word: shapeless
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...give color and profile to anecdotes which would otherwise seem shapeless the cinema learned an easy trick from Grand Hotel. The mishaps and heroics of Channel Crossing occur on a boat from Dover to Calais. The minor passengers, all garrulous in British accents as thick as the fog that comes down half way across the Channel, are what alert cinemaddicts expect to find in such surroundings: a comic cuckold (Nigel Bruce), a terse captain, a deck steward with a teething baby. Lang performs with too much solemnity, but a sound formula and good acting by handsome Constance Cummings make...
...than ever, creeps in around the edges of the dirty window, even permeates the very brick wall of the Vagabond's room. It crushes in, and constricts all his senses to a dazzling pin-point of luminosity a vast distance within itself; in the empty void about it swirl shapeless visions, as badly squared as painted blocks; there is a sensation of a ceaseless drop from an infinite height, a whirling flight through an entire universe of indistinct, uncomprehending chaos...
...grey head of Founder Long. When the suing bondholders labeled one of the company's moves to obtain bank loans as fraudulent, it was too much. In his wide-eyed old Fierce-Arrow touring car (1923 model) he hurried down to court. Wear- ing a worn suit and shapeless shoes, spry old Robert Long told his tale with a grim smile. For leading his organization into Northwest timber he showed no regret...
...rumored she had bought), and whither she went after demanding an increase of her $6,500 per week salary, came news that Greta Garbo had a cold. Also came news pictures snapped of her unawares in a Stock holm cinema theatre. They showed her dressed in the shapeless tweed suit which she had worn on her voyage from the U. S., long hair streaming stringily...
...Guest Room brings to the stage one of the most consistently detestable females it has ever seen. Charlotte ("Aunt Lottie") Powers (Helen Lowell) is an aging, shapeless creature with tiny bird-like eyes and more nose than chin. She lives in guest rooms, directs households, antagonizes servants, soon becomes mistress of any house in which she lives. Hints that she leave she studiously ignores; when told she must go, she breaks down and cries. Mrs. Fairley got rid of her by dying, Mrs. Martin (Beverly Sitgreaves) by leaving, Janet Simms (Joan Kenyon) by foisting her off on an unsuspecting friend...